I lost a lot of interest in the Badger project once they stopped working with Ace. I am sure once winter sets in for real and I am going stir crazy I will find and watch it and probably enjoy it, just not as much...

The bike was legal at Mid-O due to its one off Ace piston, the 80 over allowance netted 522cc, if memory serves. But to build it back to a 500 would have required ACE to do another one off, which for a number of reasons no one was really up for.

Ohio Mile next year? Don't know. We went back September of 2012, after the Cafe Racer thing, and not only bettered the 98 (which was a new class record for Ohio) with a new MPS/PG record of 101.7mph, but set 3 other class records as well.

A team running a Buell Blast (500cc puchrod) has since broken our MPS/PG record with a 103 and then raised their own record to 110. We still have quite a lot of potential in the Badger, with mid to hi teens very possible. But I know the Buell will be VERY highly developed for 2014, running among other thing a very sophisticated EFI system. Their goal, as I understand it, is 135. Which, of course, would be VERY hard to compete against. Especially with our budget, which usually hovers around non-existent. I like a challenge, but against THAT, might be time to call it a day. At least at Ohio. The Loring, Maine records however, are still very much with in reach.